ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST I’m going to be honest. I really don’t like Pope Francis as a pope. It’s a hard place for me to be. I have a great admiration and immense respect for the office of the…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I didn’t know I could love a novel about adulterers so much. Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” is full of characters who are so realistic that you could go outside and meet them (if you…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST College students and books: they go together like salsa and cilantro, which is to say our academic reading is something we either relish, despise or put up with because it is a necessary part of…
JACOB WATSON LIBERAL COLUMNIST Election night has come and gone. Everyone (hopefully) has voted. Most people know the results. However, there are plenty of contested elections and discontent. It makes me wonder, when we cast our ballot and do what…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR Matt Trent, a junior finance major from Cleveland, Ohio, is easily spotted across campus by his height. At 6 feet 7 inches, Trent currently plays center for the Franciscan University of Steubenville men’s basketball team. Last…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR The NBA season has settled in, and college basketball has arrived. Needless to say, I’m very excited. Also, the college football playoff rankings have been released. I have a lot to say about these topics, so…
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF If I asked you where you’d like to be right now, I doubt you would answer “in class,” “in the library studying” or even “on campus.” If you’re anything like me, especially after fall break, all you…
MICHELLE SAMANO AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDENT Hiking has been a new hobby for me this semester. I am from Chicago, which is not only the “windy city” but also a notably flat part of the United States. Living on main campus introduced…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER What superb work of literature includes a dangerous monster, a unique but outcasted girl and one of the most profound mantras of love the world has ever heard? I’m of course referring to “Lilo & Stitch,”…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Seeing as this edition appears in print on All Hallows’ Eve, I have leapt upon the opportunity to write about organ music. What can I say; it is what organists do. Early in my college…
